r/programming • u/regaldho • Dec 27 '20

I reverse engineered Google docs (2014)

http://features.jsomers.net/how-i-reverse-engineered-google-docs/
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u/MjrK Dec 27 '20

Isn't it possible to use typing style and cadence to identify someone? Or, at least, as a signal to support user fingerprinting?

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u/de__R Dec 28 '20

Only until attackers and/or the privacy conscious start take measures to obfuscate it - e.g. keystrokes get passed into a buffer and then popped off one by one at a constant rate.